I’m Canadian. And I’m already sorry for asking an ignorant question.

I know you have to pay for hospital visits in the states. I know lower economic status can come with lower access to birth control and sex education. But then, how do they afford to give birth? Do people ever avoid hospital visits because they don’t feel like they can’t afford it?

Do hospitals put people on a payment plan? Is it possible to give birth and not pay if you don’t have the means? How does it work in the states?

How does it all work?

Again. Canadian. And sorry.

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
      219·
      1 year ago

      “they don’t pay”

      Yikes, real “us vs them” without any experience understanding or compassion, eh?

      • iheartneopets@lemm.ee
        8·
        1 year ago

        This is unfortunately true, though. A lot of people just don’t pay them, especially homeless people. How are they gonna get billed? They have no address and many don’t even have a phone. I’m not making a moral judgement, but it does happen very often.

        Source: husband is an ER doc at a city hospital that serves most of the city’s homeless and below-poverty-line population where we live.

      • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        8·
        1 year ago

        I understand the point you are trying to make, but I’m not sure what you are reading into? The question was “how do poor people in the states…” I am a poor person in the states, if I was to answer I would probably say they, maybe ‘we’ if I was feeling like sharing. And it’s true, many medical bills throughout my childhood that we couldn’t afford just went unpaid, with debt on my parents credit.